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Re: Christmas Tree vs Holiday Tree

Originally Posted by megaprogman

I think we should all start calling it a holiday tree to annoy people like that. Seriously, that is a silly thing to get annoyed about.

Absolutely! My keltic ancestors were converted between the 6th and 8th centuries ACE by Irish Keltic Monks including Germanys patron saint St Boniface. These guys understood the need to maintain traditions but the Christianize them so they wouldn't look so bad.

The Mother Nerthus celebration become a feast of thanksgiving around a VERY large evergreen tree which was decorated with fruit and symbols of the clan and fetility.

Later this practice spread north across the Rhine and even as far as Scandvania.

It began as "pagan" and ended up Christain. WHO KNEW??

"Those who do not learn from history and condemned to relive it".

"There are those who will debate the necessity of wilderness, I will not, either you know it in your bones or you are very very old". Aldo Leopold - Sand County Almanac

Re: Christmas Tree vs Holiday Tree

Originally Posted by Dooble

Slow down there, oC. You need to chew before you swallow.

First of all, your anti-Christ/atheist view of the world's history remains unproven. In your circles, there still may, or may not, be a God, and there's nothing you can say or do to change that fact. If there is a God, which there is, then Jesus Christ precedes your moronic "clan form hierarchy", and that makes your point, moot.

Now, as I said earlier. Those other points I listed are all positive things, and Jesus Christ is ALL about the positives. You bark at me solely for the sake of ignorance. This tells me that, obviously, you are more child than you are adult -- at least mentally and emotionally.

Its easy to see who is "right", who is winning this argument...
The one being insulted and abased...
"Gentlemen" do NOT do this !